Thread: Pay or dump?

I am hearing things on this forum about unpaid debts. I was wondering if any of you believe in the old dump and run? What I am referring is: customer doesn't pay you a nice sum of money. You cannot get the money from that person. You then go with a truck full of unwanted debris and dump it on their driveway when they are not home. Another way this has been done I hear is that you go to the house with a driver in the truck and you go to the door. Tell customer that you want money now or debris gets dumped in driveway. I have heard of both of these methody being done by people in my area. The one where you go to the door worked, the other ones were just in retaliation. I have pondered this idea several times, but have yet to carry it out.

Don't do it!!! Seriously even if you are right don't do it!!!! I'm begging you.......it isn't worth the trouble. Not speaking from experience just know it can't be worth it. There are better ways, turn the other cheek, love your enemies, whatever works for you but that dump and run is NOT THE WAY.

Remember, an unhappy pissed off customer or ex customer will tell 100 people about you, and a happy one will maybe tell 1 person about you. Not worth the bad publicity.

Even if I stiffed you for whatever reason, and I knew I was wrong, I'd still kick the crap out of you if you pulled a stunt like that. There are better ways of doing business than that, it will probobly tarnish what is left of your company name too.

Besides, you will never get paid for your labor if you do that, and you'll probobly have to go pick it up too.

Alan- I put this under the business forum because it had to do with getting paid. As for you other guys, this does happen. A guy who was not good to me, (to put it lightly) somebody dropped about 15 yards of material in his driveway this year (not me) because he didn't pay. Another guy (tree guy) didn't get paid by somebody, went to the guy's house with a load of waste wood. Told the guy if he didn't get his money NOW that he would be getting some presents in his driveway. He got paid right then and there.